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Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently

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Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later on started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building. Patterson … Read more

Hyundai pairs up with Yandex spinoff Avride to develop robotaxis

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Hyundai Motor Company and Avride have agreed to jointly develop autonomous vehicles in a tie up that will deepen the relationship between the two companies. The deal will focus on autonomous vehicle technology designed for robotaxis. The two companies will also look into other use cases for the technology, including autonomous delivery services using Avride’s … Read more

Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website

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Anthropic has quietly removed from its website several voluntary commitments the company made in conjunction with the Biden Administration in 2023 to promote safe and “trustworthy” AI. The commitments, which included pledges to share information on managing AI risks across industry and government and research on AI bias and discrimination, were deleted from Anthropic’s transparency … Read more

Improving Blockchain Data Usability: A Key to Unlocking Institutional Capital

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Data is an essential element of an efficient market. If market efficiency is the degree to which prices reflect all available information, having quality information is crucial. And to get to information, you need data. Traditional financial markets are data-rich and have high levels of standardization and accessibility, giving market participants abundant avenues for analysis. … Read more

🏆 Startups of the Year 2024: Less Than a Month Left to Vote for Your Favorite Startup

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HackerNoon’s annual Startups ✨ of The Year 2024 is coming to an end 🎉 🎊 ✨ With over 4.1M votes aggregated and 151.4k startups nominated across 2.9k cities and 98 industries, this edition has been our largest yet! What Does This Mean for Your Startup? Being nominated among so many remarkable companies is an achievement in itself. Winning … Read more

Flex, a Brex for business owners, has raised $25M at a $250M valuation

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Flex, which offers personal finance software and payments infrastructure for business owners, has raised $25 million in equity funding while securing a $200 million credit facility, it told TechCrunch exclusively. The equity funds were raised at a valuation of “just under $250 million.” The company last raised a $20 million Series A announced in September … Read more

What Crypto Must Do to Activate the Wealth Advisory Segment

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The success of bitcoin spot ETFs combined with bitcoin’s price action have driven investors to demand direct access or exposure to crypto from their service providers. Institutional investors and traditional financial services providers now have a responsibility to at the minimum learn about crypto, if not actively look into adoption. The spotlight now is increasingly … Read more

Growth at all costs is destroying the internet. PR maven Ed Zitron says that’s an opportunity for startups

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If you spend any amount of time online, you probably noticed that your user experience keeps getting worse.  Websites are waterlogged with autoplay ads, pop-ups, and tracking scripts. Customer service chatbots are useless, despite the promises of generative AI. Social media algorithms boost rage-bait to keep you scrolling and engaged. Dating apps hide all the … Read more